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]]>By: Lorelle VanFossenhttps://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/blog-exercises-experiment-with-emptiness/#comment-982321
Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:30:45 +0000http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7971#comment-982321It is the subconscious but more than that. Even the subconscious needs a rest sometimes. We all need to stop and clear our heads once in a while. I’ve been on overdrive for many months, honestly only a rare day or two off where I did absolutely nothing, but I felt guilty. So yesterday I decided to take two hours off rather than a whole day and ended up at the Tao of Tea Teahouse in Portland, Oregon, sipping pu’er tea and nibbling on ethnic food, just staring at the walls by myself. When I found myself reaching for my cell phone I stopped and just sat there and took a breath. After an hour of that, which was very hard for me to do, I walked up and down the Hawthorne District of boutique shops for the last hour, just letting the color of the people and streets enter my mind, telling my brain to stop thinking when it would drift off onto a subject or putter around articles I’m developing. I returned to my work refreshed, recharged, and ready for anything, as well as a ton of new ideas flooding my mind once I gave myself permission to think again. It was magic.

While it wasn’t an empty time period, for me it was the process of yanking myself off my well-traveled path and changing my thought process for a while. It is so important to that we step out of our comfort zones once in a while to shake things up and find a quiet and possibly different place to let our mind expand into new and exciting areas.

As for your project, it is certainly fascinating. I noticed the site mentioned me without a link to what it was describing – might want to fix that, lol! I’m so excited that blogs, wikis, social media, and the social web in general is finally reaching academia, though it is fascinating to see how many still don’t get it. I love watching the evolution and change. Thanks!

]]>By: Leah Lorrainehttps://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/blog-exercises-experiment-with-emptiness/#comment-982279
Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:56:58 +0000http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7971#comment-982279Sari, my professor (Mark Christensen, BSU) calls that the subconscious. Often we will write something, not really understand the drive behind it, just because of the subconscious. He also says we often write things that have themes we aren’t even aware of! That’s something great about being a writer; or a painter or a dancer.

Lorelle, I thought this all to be great advice. I am currently working on my project proposal forWeblogs and Wikis and I got stuck. Taking some time away from it will definitely help!

]]>By: sarihttps://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/blog-exercises-experiment-with-emptiness/#comment-981037
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:36:11 +0000http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7971#comment-981037Have you ever noticed that when you write something powerful, there is no thinking process behind that activity? Some of us never realize it, however real shit happens in that “state”. Actually it is not a state. It’s something before any kind of state. I usually call it “the absence of I”. Anyway, great writing. Peace.
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